Artificial lakes as a climate change adaptation strategy in drylands: evaluating the trade-off on non-target ecosystem services

Santos, Ana M. C.; Godinho, Diogo Prino; Vizinho, André; Alves, Filipe M.; Pinho, Pedro; Penha‐Lopes, Gil; Branquinho, Cristina

doi:10.1007/s11027-017-9764-x

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“…Any peerreviewed literature on practices 'inspired by PC' may be excluded inadvertently. Some authors prefer to publish without mention of the word 'permaculture', presumably to avoid a priori hostility towards a contended buzzword (Santos et al 2018).…”

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Perspectives on permaculture for commercial farming: aspirations and realities

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The term 'Permaculture' (PC) refers to a theory about diversified farming systems, based on an ethical attitude (worldview) and a practical design process, guided by 12 principles and flanked by a holistic sustainability concept. Invented in the wake of Australia's socio-political 'back-to-the-land' aspirations of the 1970s, PC has since developed and grown into a diverse international grassroot movement. It can be considered a rural as well as an urban socio-cultural phenomenon that revolves around non-commercial gardening, for example urban community projects, or around farming for self-sufficiency, for instance in eco-villages. This paper intends to investigate which aspects of PC may be scalable to commercial farming whilst identifying PC aspects already implemented in commercial (organic) agriculture (OA). It analyses a current business case led by a German wholesaler of organic produce who worked in cooperation with a German supermarket chain to create the first nationwide PC label. To this end, the paper describes the degree of overlap between two organic farming certification schemes and the case study. As opposed to certified OA, PC is less prescriptive, using a deductive and inductive approach instead. It may expand scope and flexibility required for farm redesign towards improved resilience, reaching out to the landscape level. The productiveness of PC in commercial settings needs to be established further, such as best practices in soil regeneration and monitoring as well as the reduction of soil losses, or the valuation of added ecosystem services such as promotion of (agro-)biodiversity.

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Perspectives on permaculture for commercial farming: aspirations and realities

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“…One of the initial founders of the University of Southern California, Joseph Pomeroy Widney (1841-1938), as early as AD 1873, wastefully proposed to deliberately divert the Colorado River into the USA's below-sea level rift-valley territory with the goal of creating a big "…freshwater lake and to ameliorate the region's hot and dry climate" [6]; a year after the Colorado River ceased to flow naturally into Mexico because of the closure of several massive upstream dams constructed in the USA, maverick atmospheric scientist James Edward McDonald (1920-1971) had correctly pooh-poohed -proven fallacious as well as ridiculed -J.P. Widney's and others' regional air-modification concept, evaporational rain-making downwind from artificially pooled freshwater [7]. However, the overrated idea is still grudgingly promoted, often by densely jargonized, obfuscating, circumscription-style pseudo-scientific reports authored by innumerable researchers with various educational and employment qualificationsmany are mere Californian politicians first trained as lawyers and realtors [8][9][10]. And, it is generally alleged that extensive solar-power panel arrays sited above simultaneously cultivated fertile soils underneath (so-called agri-voltaism) may have an as yet unknown effect on post-installation precipitation distribution; two Salton Sea PLUS-proposed canals from the Gulf of California conveying seawater north to enlarge and maintain the Salton Sea by water-mass compensation could reduce slightly the Region's surrounding adjacent landscape air temperature, increasing annual precipitation as well as the year-round vegetation density because of moisture-laden winds arriving from the Gulf of California following the canal routes as happened in the Middle East after the Suez Canal had been dug by AD 1869.…”

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confidence: 99%